ISC-SIC

The International Society for Criminology (ISC) was founded in Rome, Italy in 1938. It is the only worldwide organization in the field of criminology and criminal justice. Its objective is to support activities and research designed to produce a better understanding of the crime phenomenon on an international scale. The Society promotes the prevention of crime as well along with improving the procedures used by the various criminal justice systems. Its activities, therefore, focus both on scientific and practical issues.

The International Society for Criminology is a non-governmental organization and many of its members occupy senior positions in their countries and in international institutions. The Society enjoys advisory status at the United Nations and the Council of Europe, and participates in UNESCO’s work.
The International Society for Criminology is one of the most active and influential scholarly associations at the forefront in addressing the challenges and problems posed by crime and deviance and in finding solutions that also fully respect human rights and democratic values.
The World Congresses of Criminology have been held under the auspices of the International Society of Criminology, since 1938. In this century, congresses were held in Rio de Janeiro (2003), Philadelphia (2005), Barcelona (2008), Kobe, Japan (2011) and Monterrey, Mexico (2014). All were successful, heavily attended, and well covered by the media.

The last World Congress, was held in August 2014 in Monterrey, Mexico and focused on gangs, trafficking and insecurity. The 2014 edition of the International Annals of Criminology will contain a wide range of papers from the plenary speeches at the Monterrey conference. The last International Course in Criminology was organised in Istanbul, Turkey, in May 2011 and dealt with the origins of restorative justice and its fields of application.

The XVII Congress takes into account some of the most serious and cogent problems facing our society these days.

The spread of gangs involved in various criminal activities and violence is a major concern for many countries, especially since it has become internationalized.

Trafficking in people, animals, arms, legal and illegal drugs, and other goods is a major phenomenon of our times, facilitated, ironically, by technological and electronic innovations that have made travel, moving people around the globe, transferring funds internationally, and communicating instantaneously relatively easy, inexpensive, and difficult to detect.

Powerful and vast economic interests, the profit motive challenged by fierce competition, and the widespread consumerism of today are among the driving forces behind human exploitation, indentured servitude, and even slavery.

Insecurity is a foremost concern for millions of citizens in several countries who face on a daily basis the threat of crime, violence, kidnapping, sexual and other assault, break-ins and theft of their valuables. Thousands are at times forced to move to other parts of a city or of a country or even migrate in order to avoid victimization.

Thus, the Monterrey Congress will provide a platform for learning, debating and attempting to address these cogent challenges and serious problems affecting our world today from an international perspective.

The Congress welcomes different forms of presentations, from the traditional “papers” to roundtables, author meets critics sessions, literary and artistic expressions, community meetings, posters, workshops and more.

We want the Congress to be a dynamic, high energy, and creative event that offers high quality scholarly and research material, data, and insights along with more concrete, practical, solution-oriented debates and collaborations. Literature, theatre and visual arts are welcome as well.

2014 - JANUARY - FULL-TIME VACANCY SENIOR ACADEMIC STAFF
Full-time vacancy among senior academic staff in the area of Criminology at the Faculty of Law in the Department of Criminal Law and Criminology at KU Leuven, Belgium
More information can be found on the website of the KU Leuven

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